▲ 191 ▼ 32nd Century Uniforms (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world 43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Why do militaries have such a respect fetish anyway? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 child) Because the chain of command needs to be embedded enough into your psyche to override your fight/flight response. Same reason we spend our entire careers in the military practicing war. When it's real, you can't freeze up or get flustered...your job also has to be so well practiced that you can do it instinctively, because when you're getting shot at, instinct is sometimes all you've got left. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) That and because it used to be a literal class divide and the officers were genetically better than you and chosen by Gawd, you peasant filth, get back in the spear line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago I don't know if I should upvote you because they actually act like this or downvote because you reminded me of having to deal with it, even as a civilian. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 years ago* My grandfather was in a WWI German prison camp as a child (his father was British and all British subjects in the UK were put in prison camps when the war broke out). It was largely autonomous, and when POWs started arriving, the enlisted acted as indentured servants to the officers. Yes, WWI not WWII. I'm old. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 child) Because the chain of command needs to be embedded enough into your psyche to override your fight/flight response. Same reason we spend our entire careers in the military practicing war. When it's real, you can't freeze up or get flustered...your job also has to be so well practiced that you can do it instinctively, because when you're getting shot at, instinct is sometimes all you've got left. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) That and because it used to be a literal class divide and the officers were genetically better than you and chosen by Gawd, you peasant filth, get back in the spear line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago I don't know if I should upvote you because they actually act like this or downvote because you reminded me of having to deal with it, even as a civilian. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 years ago* My grandfather was in a WWI German prison camp as a child (his father was British and all British subjects in the UK were put in prison camps when the war broke out). It was largely autonomous, and when POWs started arriving, the enlisted acted as indentured servants to the officers. Yes, WWI not WWII. I'm old. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) That and because it used to be a literal class divide and the officers were genetically better than you and chosen by Gawd, you peasant filth, get back in the spear line. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago I don't know if I should upvote you because they actually act like this or downvote because you reminded me of having to deal with it, even as a civilian. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 years ago* My grandfather was in a WWI German prison camp as a child (his father was British and all British subjects in the UK were put in prison camps when the war broke out). It was largely autonomous, and when POWs started arriving, the enlisted acted as indentured servants to the officers. Yes, WWI not WWII. I'm old. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 4 points 2 years ago I don't know if I should upvote you because they actually act like this or downvote because you reminded me of having to deal with it, even as a civilian. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world [S] 3 points 2 years ago* My grandfather was in a WWI German prison camp as a child (his father was British and all British subjects in the UK were put in prison camps when the war broke out). It was largely autonomous, and when POWs started arriving, the enlisted acted as indentured servants to the officers. Yes, WWI not WWII. I'm old. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
